Chauncey VIBBARD

(1811-1891)

VIBBARD, Chauncey, a
Representative from New York; born in Galway, Saratoga County,
N.Y., November 11, 1811; attended the common schools and was
graduated from Mott’s Academy for Boys, Albany, N.Y.; clerk
in a wholesale grocery store in Albany, N.Y.; moved to New York
City, and in 1834 went to Montgomery, Ala.; returned to New York
and settled in Schenectady; was appointed chief clerk of the Utica
& Schenectady Railroad Co. in 1836; became a railroad freight
and ticket agent in 1848; consolidated the many little railroads of
western New York into the New York Central Railroad Co., serving as
its first general superintendent 1853-1865; elected as a Democrat
to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863);
declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862; during the
Civil War served as director and superintendent of military
railroads in 1862; first president of the Family Fund Insurance Co.
1864-1867; moved to New York City in 1865 and became involved in
the business of steamship lines and elevated railroads; interested
in the development of southern railroads and South and Central
American enterprises at the time of his retirement in 1889; died in
Macon, Ga., June 5, 1891; interment in Riverside Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present